Olfactory preference in the male rat depends on multiple chemosensory inputs converging on the preoptic area

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 193-199

  Dhungel, Sunil ^a   Urakawa, Susumu ^a,b   Kondo, Yasuhiko ^a   Sakuma, Yasuo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Olfactory pathways; Preference; Preoptic area; Sexual odor

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; FEMALE; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SNIFFING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 78651421230     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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